New York S 1982: Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs

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S01982 Summary:

BILL NOS01982A

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SAME ASSAME AS A10026

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SPONSORHARCKHAM

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COSPNSRASHBY, JACKSON, O'MARA, ROLISON, STEC, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §209-q, Gen Muni L; amd §§840 & 841, Exec L

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Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs; directs the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations relating to qualification for municipal police forces for persons who were previously sworn members of the state police and to provide certificates to such persons who meet such qualifications.

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BILL NOS01982A

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01/14/2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

06/09/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/09/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1607

06/10/2025PASSED SENATE

06/10/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/10/2025referred to local governments

06/11/2025RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY

06/11/2025returned to senate

06/11/2025VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING

06/11/2025AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 1982A

06/13/2025RECOMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

03/10/20261ST REPORT CAL.498

03/11/20262ND REPORT CAL.

03/12/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

04/29/2026PASSED SENATE

04/29/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

04/29/2026referred to local governments

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1982--A
 Cal. No. 1607

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ASHBY, JACKSON, O'MARA, ROLISON, STEC,
 WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit-
 ted to the Committee on Local Government -- committee discharged and
 said bill committed to the Committee on Rules -- reported favorably
 from said committee, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and
 delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to
 third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in
 the order of third reading

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the executive law, in
 relation to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and
 undersheriffs

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 209-q of the
 2 general municipal law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1988, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local
 5 law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nine-
 6 teen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis
 7 as a police officer of any county, city, town, village or police
 8 district unless such person has previously been awarded a certificate by
 9 the executive director of the municipal police training council created
 10 under article thirty-five of the executive law, attesting to [his] such
 11 person's satisfactory completion of an approved municipal police basic
 12 training program or a certificate provided pursuant to subdivision
 13 three-b of section eight hundred forty-one of the executive law; and
 14 every person who is appointed on a temporary basis or for a probationary
 15 term or on other than a permanent basis as a police officer of any coun-
 16 ty, city, town, village or police district shall forfeit [his] their
 17 position as such unless [he] such person previously has satisfactorily
 18 completed, or within the time prescribed by regulations promulgated by

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04728-03-5

 S. 1982--A 2

 1 the governor pursuant to section eight hundred forty-two of the execu-
 2 tive law, satisfactorily completes, a municipal police basic training
 3 program for temporary or probationary police officers and is awarded a
 4 certificate by such director attesting thereto or a certificate provided
 5 pursuant to subdivision three-b of section eight hundred forty-one of
 6 the executive law. An elected or appointed sheriff may apply for a
 7 certificate provided purs